Here is a video of double bassist Boguslaw Furtok playing the last movement of Frank Proto’s Sonata “1963” in Spain last year.
Check out this video of the incomparable Stanley Clarke playing an extended upright bass solo. Especially funny are the old fogies in the audience seen imitating his upright slap style. This video is great!
The 2007 Whitewater Winter Bassfest, an event that I started five years ago at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, just happened a couple of weekends ago. Scott Kreger, the new double bass instructor at UWW and a member of the Milwaukee Symphony, was teaching...
Here is a short (but excellent) clip of double bassist Boguslaw Furtok playing the last movement of the Eccles Sonata. The camera zooms in on his right hand, giving viewers an opportunity to check out his bow grip. German players are most likely more aware of the...
I stumbled upon the Basso Moderno Duo while clicking around, and the fact that they were playing a piece written by Yoko Ono immediately intrigued me. Here is information on the duo from their website: The Basso Moderno Duo has commissioned over one hundred lyrical...
